Readings
Sep 2. Week One - Introduction
Sep 9. Week Two - Basic Issues in Cybersecurity
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau (2007), “Chapter Four: National Security,” Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption Second edition, The MIT Press. Available at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/gwu/docDetail.action?docID=10185594
Alvaro Cardenas, Tanya Roosta, Gelareh Taban and Shankar Sastry, “Cyber Security: Basic Defenses and Attack Trends,” available at http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cardenas/Papers/Chap4v2.pdf.
Lene Hansen and Helen Nissenbaum, “Digital Disaster, Cyber Security and the Copenhagen School,” forthcoming, International Studies Quarterly. Available on Blackboard.
Sep 16. Week Three - National Security meets Electronic Privacy - the Cryptography Debate
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau. 2007. “Chapter Nine: Cryptography in the 1990s,” and “Chapter Ten: And Then It All Changed,” Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption Second edition, The MIT Press.
Flamm, Kenneth. 1997. Deciphering the Cryptography Debate - Brookings Institution Policy Brief. Available at: http://www.brookings.edu/papers/1997/07technology_flamm.aspx.
ACLU. 1998. Big Brother in the Wires: Wiretapping in the Digital Age. Available at: http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/15440pub19980301.html.
Various authors, Crypto Policy Perspectives, Communications of the ACM 37(8) 115-121. On Blackboard.
Sep 23. Week Four - Cyberspace as an Open Network
Lessig, Larry. 2000. “Architecting for Control.” Available at: http://www.lessig.org/content/articles/works/camkey.pdf.
Johnson, David R., and David Post. 1995. “Law and Borders—The Rise of Law in Cyberspace.” Stan. L. Rev. 48: 1367. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=535#.
Goldsmith, Jack L. 1998. “Against Cyberanarchy.” U. Chi. L. Rev. 65: 1199. Available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property00/jurisdiction/cyberanarchy.html.
Farrell, Henry. 2006. “Regulating Information Flows: States, Private Actors and E-Commerce,” Annual Review of Political Science 6:353-374. Available at: http://www.henryfarrell.net/annreview.pdf.
Sep 30. Week Five - The Changing Nature of Cyberspace - Is Openness Still a Good Thing?
Zittrain, Jonathan. 2008. “Chapter Four: Cybersecurity and the Generative Dilemma,” The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Yale University Press. Available at http://yupnet.org/zittrain/archives/11.
Deibert, Ronald. 2008. “Chapter 6: Good for Liberty, Bad for Security? Global Civil Society and the Securitization of the Internet,” Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain eds., Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (The MIT Press). Available at http://opennet.net/sites/opennet.net/files/Deibert07Ch06_123-150.pdf.
Biddle, Peter, Paul England, Marcus Peinado and Bryan Willman. 2002. The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution. Available at http://www.bearcave.com/misl/misl_tech/msdrm/darknet.htm.
Denning, Dorothy. 2009. “Terror’s Web: How the Internet is Transforming Terrorism.” In Handbook on Internet Crime, eds. Y Jewkes and M. Yar. Williams Publishing. Available at: http://faculty.nps.edu/dedennin/publications/Denning-TerrorsWeb.pdf.
Oct 7. Week Six - Defensive Cybersecurity - Defending Against Incursions
Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond. 2007. Zombies and Botnets. Available on Blackboard.
Congressional Research Service. 2008. Botnets, Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Vulnerabilities and Issues for Congress. Available at http://fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/RL32114.pdf
Evgeny Morozov. 2009. “Cyberscare,” The Boston Review July/August 2009. Available at http://www.bostonreview.net/BR34.4/morozov.php.
Gadi Evron. 2008. “Battling Botnets and Online Mobs: Estonia’s Defense Efforts during the Internet War.” *Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Available at http://ciaonet.org/journals/gjia/v9i1/0000699.pdf (requires on-campus computer or GWID remote log-in).
Oct 14. Week Seven - Offensive Cybersecurity - Is There A Case for It?
Denning, Dorothy. 2007. The Ethics of Cyber Conflict. Available at: http://faculty.nps.edu/dedennin/publications/Ethics%20of%20Cyber%20Conflict.pdf.
Sebastian Convertino, Lou Anne DeMattei and Tammy Knierim. 2008. Flying and Fighting in Cyberspace. Available at http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/maxwell/mp40.pdf.
William Owens, Kenneth Dam and Herbert Lin, eds. 2009. Technology, Policy, Law and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acqquisition and Use of Cyber Attack Capabilities Read pp. 1-1 to 1-57, 9-1 to 9-13 and 10-1 to 10-13. Available at https://3900171572419920195-a-cyberconflict-org-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/cyberconflict.org/operational-cyber-study/notes-from-our-11-august-2009-session/1Finalreport-Cyberattack.pdf.
Oct 21. Week Eight - If the Government Knew What the Government Knows - Managing Security Relevant Electronic Information
The 9-11 Commission. “Chapter 13: How To Do It? A Different Way of Organizing the Government,” The 9-11 Commission Report, available http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch13.pdf.
James Steinberg, Andrew Eggers and Mary Graham. 2003. Building Intelligence to Fight Terrorism. The Brookings Institution. Available at http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2003/09intelligence_steinberg.aspx.
Markle Foundation Task Force. 2009. Nation At Risk, Markle Foundation. Available at http://www.markle.org/downloadableassets/20090304mtf_report.pdf.
Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment. 2006. Hearing on Building the Information Sharing Environment. http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2006_hr/ise.pdf.
Oct 28. Week Nine - Remaking Security-Oriented Policy Structures - Lessons From the Intelligence Community
Rob Johnston. 2005. Analytic Culture in the US Intelligence Community. Chapters Two, Five, Nine. Available at https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/analytic-culture-in-the-u-s-intelligence-community/analyticculturereport.pdf.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 2007. Transcripts from the 2007 Analytic Transformation Symposium. Available at http://www.dni.gov/speeches/20070905_speech.pdf.
Clive Thompson. 2006. “Open Source Spying,” New York Times December 3 2006. Available at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406EEDD103EF930A35751C1A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all.
Joab Jackson (2009), “Intellipedia Suffers Midlife Crisis,” _Government Computer News. 2009. Available at http://www.gcn.com/Articles/2009/02/18/Intellipedia.aspx.
Douglas Hart and Steven Simon. 2006. “Thinking Straight and Talking Straight: Problems of Intelligence Analysis,” Survival 48(1):35-60. Available at http://cyberneutics.com/publications/SurvivalFeb06.pdf.
Nov. 4. Week Ten - Creating New Structures for Cybersecurity in the Federal Government - The Current State of Play
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau (2007), “Chapter Eleven: Apres le Deluge” Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption Second edition, The MIT Press.
CSIS Commission on CyberSecurity for the 44th Presidency. 2008. “Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency.” Available at: http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/081208securingcyberspace44.pdf
Congressional Research Service. 2009. Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative: Legal Authority and Policy Considerations. Available at http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40427_20090310.pdf.
William Owens, Kenneth Dam and Herbert Lin, eds. 2009. Technology, Policy, Law and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acqquisition and Use of Cyber Attack Capabilities Read pp. 6-1 to 6-19. Available at https://3900171572419920195-a-cyberconflict-org-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/cyberconflict.org/operational-cyber-study/notes-from-our-11-august-2009-session/1Finalreport-Cyberattack.pdf.
Senate Armed Services Committee. 2009. Report 110-335 on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009. Extract at http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2008/sasc-cyber.html.
Nov. 11. Week Eleven - Using Information Technology to Fight Terrorism I - Data Mining and Information Gathering
Mary DeRosa. 2004. Data Mining and Analysis for Counter Terrorism. Center for Strategic and International Studies. Available at http://www.cdt.org/security/usapatriot/20040300csis.pdf.
Jeff Jonas and Jim Harper. 2006. Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data. CATO Policy Analysis. Available at http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa584.pdf.
Robert Popp and John Poindexter. 2006. “Countering Terrorism through Information and Privacy Protection Technologies.” IEEE Security and Privacy. Available on Blackboard.
National Research Council. 2008. Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Program Assessment. Read Chapter Three. Available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12452#toc
Bohannon, John. 2009. “Counterterrorism’s New Tool: ‘Metanetwork’ Analysis.” Science 325, July 24 2009. On Blackboard.
Nov 18. Week Twelve - Using Information Technology to Fight Terrorism II - Challenges for Public Diplomacy
Kimmage, Dan. 2008. The Al Qaeda Media Nexus. Available at http://docs.rferl.org/en-US/AQMediaNexus.pdf.
ICSR. 2009. Countering Online Radicalisation: A Strategy for Action. Available at http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/counteringonlineradicalisation1.pdf.
Gregory, Bruce. Public Diplomacy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the U.S. Experience. Available at https://www.gwu.edu/~smpa/faculty/documents/GenevaTalkPDApril2008.pdf.
Lynch, Marc. 2006. “Al Qaeda’s Media Strategies.” The National Interest March 2006. Available at http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/vp01.cfm?outfit=pmt&folder=1087&paper=2662.
Nov. 25. Week Thirteen - The Politics of Domestic Surveillance - Do We Face a ‘National Surveillance State?’
Klein, Mark. 2009. Wiring Up the Big Brother Machine: And Fighting It. Read pages 17-44. On Blackboard.
Swire, Peter. 2006. Privacy and Information Sharing in the War on Terrorism. Available at http://www.peterswire.net/privacyandinfosharingfinal.pdf.
Balkin, Jack. 2008. The Constitution in the National Surveillance State. Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1141524.
Kerr, Orin. 2009. The National Surveillance State: A Response to Balkin. Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1341389.
Taipale, Kim. 2007. “Why Can’t We All Get Along? How Technology, Security and Privacy Can Co-exist in a Digital World,” in Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked World, Yale Information Society Project series, (Jack Balkin, et al., eds., NYU Press. On Blackboard.
Dec 2. Week Fourteen - Student Presentations.
No assigned readings.